> This is unacceptable. Closing an accessibility report because the maintainers haven't touched it in months is not “tidying up”; it is hiding evidence. It effectively says that if a bug is ignored long enough, it ceases to exist.

Another perspective from a project maintainer’s point of view:

The people who own and maintain the project get to decide what the status Open and Closed means in the context of a ticket. Users do not necessarily have to agree.

For example, a project maintainer may choose to assign to a status of Open the meaning “this is untriaged or we’re actively working on it”, and Closed could mean “we have looked at this ticket and determined that no team member is going to work on it right now.” In other words, Closed does not have to mean “rejected and this decision is final” but can mean “it’s not something we’re currently working on.” These semantics might not be intuitive for everyone but can be justifiable if they help the project members organize their workload.